in this way, appalachia belongs to no one.by the mid 1940s, coal mining had begun to the transition from a labor-intensive to a a machine-intensive industry. international harvester corporation and u.s. steel no longer invested in bodies; but, rather,, in machinery and technology. the companies adopted new strategies to control their labor population including systemic layoffs, hiring freezes and imposing certification requirements on certain jobs to create areas of expertise. through this process of mechanization, the black population stood witness toys own erasure. laborersnt were expelled from harlan county in the same way they were recruited, by a judicious mixture of race and earth misty. it is -- ethnicity. it is no surprise that the black body was the most expendable. black, working-age young adults found themselves with no job opportunities in sight. earl turner worked in the mines of lynch for 55 years before retiring. one of the first black mine foremen in harlan county and a veteran member of the united mine workers

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you started out as a reporter in the area in virginia and you discovered that therdiscover thm in appalachia and i think you started covering out henry and lee counties in rural virginia is that right? >> guest: i didn't cover the oxycontin epidemic when when ad of the '90s that was the purview of the core to the police reporters at the time but i finished up around 2013 which is a book about the aftermath of globalization in henry county and martinsville and all communities i started to hear from policemen and other sources that so much of the drug crime was drug fueled mostly by methamphetamine and heroin and sure enough it was. i didn't understand how at the time they were connected. i didn't understand they were chemical cousins. once they are edited and get cut off, that fuels them to have to get more. in 2010 and the early teens the cartel started bringing in heroin. learning that there was an opioid crisis aim will america and not so long ago there was poverty. they care about their families and left their doors unlocked because crime was so low and that is all revolutionized tod toda

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you started off this journey in the roanoke virginia area and you discover there was a problem in appalachia and you start off covering rural virginia. is that correct quick. >> yes i didn't cover the oxycontin epidemic when i first bubbled up in the late nineties but when i wrote factory man which was a book about the aftermath of globalization and with these distressed communities i started to hear from policemen and other sources that so much of the crime in the community was drug fueled by methamphetamines mostly in heroine. and i thought heroine? how is that happening? and sure enough it was. i didn't understand at the time how heroine and oxycontin and the pills were connected i didn't understand they were chemical cousins and if people were addicted to percocet or the other opioids once they are addicted and get cut off they are dope sick that fuels them to have to get more and when the pills got hard to get around the time oxycontin was reformulated in 2010, the drug cartel started to bring in heroine knowing that fear of being dope sick was one hell of a business model. >> i think a

some pockets of white appalachia a tradition called air property. it is tennessee and common is what it is called. you may just hand down the property verbally by word-of-mouth so i could give it to the two of you. there is not necessarily a clear title on the land because of that. i didn't name you. a lot of folks that i talked to in other spots in rural areas of the nation. there may be a cluster of trailers on the property that is just held in common. let alone their trailer. the idea is that the air property is held in common by the family. called kind of like an estate. it is difficult to quantify. the other thing is i think this is particular to the history of the black belt. i also think it is particular because these people -- they went through the vocal reactors coming through the first time. now they are coming through the second time. they've seen what is happened when the land was taken. they have that animosity over generations, really. i think that also shapes what i learned about. >> my last question was, the professor suggested that

the president's endorsement carries more weight in the midwest and appalachia than perhaps in californiaor in the southwest. so what we saw coming out -- he's president today because there were certain states where he really drove the numbers up in the midwest in particular that democrats were used to winning. but certainly it's very regional in that respect. >> fred, quickly, the trump effect. what do democrats think? >> look, i think tuesday night was a very good night for democrats. but again, as i said earlier, it's the first real look at 2020. democrats made gains in the suburbs. we had a record gender gap. butch i agree with ron. there are going to be states in 2018 and 2020 where president trump ran strong, his candidates ran well and i think sort of -- i don't think the playing field really for 2020 has shifted quite yet, although democrats did do well in the midwest. >> democrats and republicans agreeing on something. you saw it here, folks. fred yang, ron nehring, thank you both. >> at least 121 women are heading to congress in january to serve in the house and senate and more

scott is in appalachia. it is effecting florida. if you go to miami beach in king tide, it is costing jobs and tourism. i think if we can get him to care, maybe about electoral math in 2020, how important florida is, because if we don't have a candidate that understands how urgent this is in florida and throughout the country, they're not going to win florida because this is that important. >> scott, talk about that. there are some republicans getting on board with this. what is the political ramification of that? >> well, i think if we continue to see weather events portrayed as being caused by or made more extreme by climate change, that will be more on the minds of voters in 2020. of course any of these issues and impact on an election depends if the candidates themselves make it a top priority. my suspicion is this will be a top priority in the democratic primary for president. the real issue of course would be if either candidate makes it a top priority in the general election. i think it is important we look at what the united

we pour our money and time into organizations that feed and mentor people teach in uganda in appalachia show up in refugee camps with water. people like us all over the world teach children teach girls auto repair and electrical installation, teach boys to care for babies. i have never written a more global and national brutality in such goodness in the world's response to our own. some of us grew up in the alternative universe of unhappy marriages where we accepted as normal desperate parental need. i am sure your family was just fine. [laughter] and the love you grew up with was kindness and mutual respect. delight in each other patients with a spouse or a child's foibles but other families just a few here and there hardly worth mentioning were stressful neglectful fundamentalist racist alcoholic schizophrenic and/or repressed. brothers and sisters didn't always survive. they became jumpy perfectionists. t.s. eliot wrote tedious to care not to care. teach us to sit still. we long for this and yet we check our smartphones every 10 minutes for news, texts and distractions. just before m

. >> anthony: appalachia has a rich and deep culinary culture. and still is in many cases, the food of poverty. >> mike: we see that ramps are selling for $30 a pound in new york city that we're harvesting in west virginia, and what's west virginia seeing from that? probably a guy that got about $2 a pound. >> emily hillard: it becomes just another extractive industry like coal or timber. and you sort of start to see that -- >> anthony: that's the story of west virginia. >> emily: yeah. >> anthony: chef mike costello and partner amy dawson are looking to keep that culture alive and appreciate it, and paying off locally for the region it originated in. >> mike: i also have some buttermilked poached trout that we're gonna put on there with some pickled rhubarb. yeah, it'll be good. >> anthony: they run a traveling kitchen that brings local ingredients, appalachian recipes, and the stories behind them around the state. ♪ "lost creek farm" is their place. ♪ a working farm they're rebuilding by hand. ♪ and the nucleus of that effort is the garden. >>

some things that appear in the press about poverty in the inner cities but also in places like appalachia. he wants to be the successor to franklin delano roosevelt. the great society is to fix the problems of america. medicare, medicaid, food stamps, all that stuff comes out of the great society. what do you not want to be the president of? >> losing wars. >> well, losing the vietnam war, but you really don't want to be part of the vietnam war at all if you can avoid it. in fact, going into vietnam or when we -- he's debating going in with ground troops, he says i feel like a jackass in a texas hailstorm. i can't run, i can't hide, and i can't make it stop. i like this bust. i got it from the johnson presidential library. why i bought this bust is for a reason. in 1965, johnson commissioned these busts, and he would hand them out to visitors. now, what does that tell you about johnson? >> he likes himself. >> he is from texas. >> okay. shh. they'll secede. be careful, okay? so you give these things. it says something about the guy's ego, that he's giving these things out as gifts. okay?

safer and give people a fairer chance, some of these forgotten men and women, some of them are in appalachiagive him some credit. when obama was in office no, matter what he did, the right wing kicked his butt. he did stuff that the conservatives have been begging him to do and then had he kicked his butt. i say the 99 times i don't agree with the president i'm going to give him hell. on this one i'll give him a sal salute and applause. if you can't help people suffering and struggling in prison when there's a shot to do something on a bipartisan basis, we've taken politics too far. >> what do you say to critics? many of them democrats, who say it doesn't go far enough. they will ask, how you can trust this president who has done so many, frankly, racist things. >> yeah. well, listen, those are two different things. it is true that the bill doesn't go far enough, frankly, you probably couldn't pass a bill that goes far enough for me because we have 2.2 million people in prison. a lot of those people could come home tomorrow and be just fine. but it's a first step. we held out for way too muc

experienced federal prosecutors who are going to go into five states and nine judicial districts in appalachia, partner with our u.s. attorney's offices, around the country, to bring experienced prosecutors to bear to work side by side with u.s. attorney's offices in those affected districts, to target doctors, to target pharmacies, to target health care professionals, that are spreading this disease and this addiction and this poison into these communities. and the way it will work is the way it has always worked. we bring a strike force model to bear in these states. we send in at the request of the united states attorney, and with respect to the strike force that was announced today, i had an opportunity, i and my deputy, to speak to all nine united states attorneys before we decided to do this, and we had unbelievably enthusiastic support from all nine u.s. attorneys, for us to come into the districts, and work with them, to prosecute cases, in one of the most deeply affected and hardest-hit parts of the country. and the way we do it is through, in addition to the typical hard work that pr

pour our money and time into organizations that feed and mentor people, teaching in uganda and appalachia and water and art supplies. people all over the world teach children, teach girls auto repair and electrical installation, teach voice to care for babies, witnessing with hope, and never witnessed more global international brutality, such goodness in the world's response to our own and there are families of origin. some of us grew up in the alternative universe of unhappy marriages where we accepted as i am sure your family is just fine. and in the template of love, kindness and mutual respect, patients with the spousal child's foibles but another family, just a few here and there, hardly worth mentioning, stressful, homophobic, neglectful, fundamentalist, racist, alcoholic, schizophrenic and or repressed. brothers and sisters didn't always survive. we became jumpy perfectionists. t.s. eliot wrote teach us to care and not to care, teach us to sit still. we long for this and yet check our smart phones for news, and distractions. just before my 61st birthday i made a list for my grandso

he said literally, appalachia loves this bill, because they knowthat working people this is a matter that is not only about criminal justice. it is about economic justice. that is worth fighting for. i also have a bill that we call the list act. if a family is making less than get a taxr, they credit of up to $6,000. why? familiesany american are up $500 emergency away from financial catastrophe. the leading cause of bankruptcy in our country is the inability to pay a hospital bill. that is worth fighting for. economic justice. let's talk about another one that's worth fighting for. can you pay the rent? we have great songs about that. in 99% of the counties in the united states, if you are a minimum-wage worker working full-time, 99%, a minimum-wage worker working full-time cannot afford market rate for a one-bedroom apartment. what my bill proposes is that if you are paying over 30% of your income in rent and utilities, you get a tax credit of up to $6,000. because we know that is one of the biggest issues facing working families, their ability to pay the rent at the end of the mon

county, tennessee, were wonderful people but they had no money, 10 kids, an outhouse, farm, pure appalachia. my dad hitchhiked into knoxville with $5 in his pocket to go to the university of tennessee. 20 years later he was selected as mayor and led the peaceful integration of our city. he got about 95% of the african-american vote in three nonpartisan races for mayor. he then preceded me in congress, serving 23 1/2 years and becoming the ranking republican on the ways and means committee. a former democratic congressman from pennsylvania told me one time, your dad was only man i knew who never had an enemy in this town. i once described my father as the kindest, sweetest, toughest, hardest working person i ever knew and said tough in a nice way. i got a nice letter from peyton manning. he said he flew out of knoxville and could tell in that article that i had the same kind of relationship i had with my dad that he has with his. my mother was two years older than my father. after college in iowa, came to knoxville to visit an older sister who had married an engineering graduate from the uni

revived the democratic party on poverty in reaching out with his famous trips to west virginia and appalachia. if you think about what is the main bipartisan issue right now isthe knighted states, what the one thing that got done in congress this month by president trump? the opioid epidemic. places in this country that are struggling with poverty and drug abuse, that is really an issue where if you're going to run for president in 2020, you have to be able to speak to that. robert: i really think about religious leaders -- religious voters as a reporter. it is not just talking about the culture. so often you get sucked into it. reporters, too. it is abortion, it is the culture, it is highly charged big picture cultural battlegrounds. there is also the human side of it as you are saying, where does the voter go? maybe look at robert kennedy's example. paul ryan used to talk about poverty, but there was not a huge appetite to talk about it. he went around the country with a gentleman named bob woodson, a longtime religious organizer who started liberal, now he is conservative, and african-amer

this is an energy producer with more of a focus on natural gas, especially in appalachia. look at natural gas and oil, because we are seeing some real rollover. this is the year to date chart, and in blue is oil, white, natural gas. we saw a wild ride earlier this year for natural gas, but oil steadily higher. bucking it through the summer, but up 26%. the recent selling pressure really came into effect on fears around supply. meanwhile, we have natural gas once again popping higher today, theup 26% as oil is down on year, down on those supply fears and momentum of the downward pressure, the selling pressure. natural gas, unfortunately, is higher on a cold weather forecast here in the u.s. next week. either way, pretty interesting. caroline: and now it is official -- 10 straight days of losses for wti, the longest losing streak on record. brent is similarly down on the day. we discussed the fundamentals with david marina, and to talk the technicals we have mike mcglone, the commodity strategist for bloomberg intelligence. let's go through the fundamentals first of all. it

access some things that appear in the press about poverty in the inner cities, but in places like appalachia, she wants to be the successor to franklin delano roosevelt, the great society is to fix the problems of america. medicare, medicaid, food stamps, all of that stuff comes out of the great society. what do you not want to be the president of? losing the vietnam war, but you don't want to be part of the vietnam war at all if you can avoid it. going into vietnam, he says that i feel like a [ null ] in a texas hailstorm. i cannot run and i cannot hide, and i cannot make it stop. i like this bust and i got it from the johnson presidential library. why i bought this bust is for a reason. in 1965, johnson commissioned these busts and he would hand them out to visitors. what does that tell you about johnson? so you get these things and it says something about the ego of the guy that he is giving these things out as a gift. the reason i bought this is that it is from the original stocker. i got it a couple of years ago and i opened the box, it smelled like 1966 because they still have hundreds

revived the democratic party on poverty and reaching out in his famous trips to west virginia and appalachia. you think about what's the main bipartisan issue right now in the united states, what's the one thing that got done in congress this month and was signed by president trump? the opioid epidemic. that laces in this country that are struggling with poverty and drug abuse, that is really an issue where if you're going to run for president in 2020, you have to be able to speak to that. i really think about religious voters as as a reporter, it's t just about talking about the culture because often we get sucked into, reporters, it's abortion, it's the culture, those of the issues, highly charged very kind the big picture cultural battleground. there's also the human side of faith because you saying where is the francis voter go? maybe look at robert kennedys example. paul ryan tried as house speaker used to talk about poverty for the was a huge appetite in the house gop and the conservative party to move on a lot of the poverty programs. but he recognized the republican party had a defic

>> searchers, law enforcement, volunteers began fanning out into the adjacent 57,000 acre appalachia national forest. all of them with dread in their heart. >> i would be devastated if this happened to my family. i want to help. >> there were massive searches in town, thousands of people showed up to comb the woods looking for her. it was clear very early on that this was unusual for her. she would not have gotten in the car with someone. she just wasn't the person who would have disappeared. >> tallahassee democrat senior writer jennifer portman covered the story. >> we're talking about north florida in the panhandle area. people are bound by their schools, by their it family, their churches. >> and sunday school teachers with children and a grandchild don't go missing. >> that's exactly right. >> her friends and family were as baffld as the police. law enforcement was trying to put the pieces together. when they looked into sheryl's background, nothing jumped out at them. two sons, a long settled divorce, no boyfriends. then on tuesday, four days after she was last seen, the cops g

depleted uranium that we are dropping on kids is made in america and it is killing children here in appalachiarmy ammunition plant, a company, b.a.e. systems, a company that has production the phillies in saudi arabia, they are making depleted uranium munitions at that plant. read the propublica articles, "bombs in america," we are killing our own children with contaminations here. systems happens to be run by michael chertoff, and yes, the first homeland security director whose result controversy and paranoia. people, you have got to get some progress in your scopes. read the facts. whitaker is a shill. we should not have allowed him in the building, these should not be in that position. we should stop wasting our blood money, position, and souls making weapons to kill people all over the country. host: for viewers who do not know what this previous caller was talking about, she is talking about the acting attorney general matthew j whitaker. here is a story from the this morning.st" president trump distances himself from acting attorney general matthew j whitaker, amid the controversy of leg

spent three years after going to harvard business school driving 4,000 miles across the country to appalachiaound was the american dream is real, it just happens to be a distraction, a distraction from the american machine. you take a kid like me, and it allows us to ignore the conveyor belt that takes most young people from neighborhoods like minor neighborhoods like j.d. vance's, for example, and takes them to nowhere unlike the few chosen like me, and i think what my book does is go back as objectively as possible on the realities of this country and the choices that we've made that leads to the reality that a kid in my neighborhood is expected to earn $21,000 a year, less than their parents were expected to earn. 13 million children go to sleep hungry in this country. one in three children don't have a stable place to sleep at all. i think it's less about the american dream, it's more about the american machine. china has made practical choices to support their people, and we have not. >> you talk about the american machine. define what you say the american machine is. >> well, the americ

he said to me literally, appalachia loves this bill because they know working people, poor people, whoever are, know that this is a matter that is not only about criminal justice, it is about economic justice. that is worth fighting for. let's look at economic justice in another context. i have also got a bill that we call the lift act, which says that if a family is making less than $100,000 a year, they get a tax credit of up to $6,000. why? because many, many american families are a $500 emergency away from financial catastrophe. the leading cause of bankruptcy in our country is the inability to pay a hospital bill. that's worth fighting for, economic justice. let's talk about another economic justice issue that is worth fighting for. can you pay the rent. you know we have had great songs about that. that rent needs to get paid. well, in 99% of the counties in the united states, if you are a minimum wage worker, working full-time, so in 99% of the counties in the united states, a minimum wage worker working full-time cannot afford market rate for a one-bedroom apartment. ... so they can

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